Herry's European Tour 1967
In the summer of 1967 after leaving university and before starting work at Millers , Herry travelled through Europe with the original intention of visiting Roger Allen, an old friend of his parents' who was then ambassador to Turkey. Taking only £25, which was the maximum one was allowed to take out of the country in those days, he drove from Calais through France, Germany and Italy to Corfu. In Florence he stayed for three weeks while his car was repaired after an accident, and where his mother's goddaughter Madelaine Rampling lent him her flat (she had been helping clear up after the great flood of 1966). There he was joined by Charlie Skipwith who was then working in Bordeaux, and his new girlfriend Lucie . Johnny Cooke also drove out from England with Annabelle Coldstream and Tim Boycott joined them with Lu Handcock . Herry actually met Lucie for the first time in Charlie's tent in a wood outside Livorno. It was the shooting season and we spend all day keeping ou...